Fair Education System
Recent protest have raised questions on Indian education system. Demanding the resignation of Education minister Dharmendra pradhan. Does this will change anything will be only symbolic solution? The question stands strong. Does the huge hunger strike of ER. Sonam Wangchuk, the online activism, all ends up at a symbolic demand. The protest have become enough popular now to have some legitimate demands on systematic changes but any long term vision or solution has not been conveyed by the protestors yet. “CHANGING THE PILOT WILL NOT FIX THE ENGINE”.
The protestors were also seen worried that cheating will help less qualified students to enter in institution but reservation also does the same but they will never go against it.Why?No one knows, maybe the majority supporting them come from quota class.
Reservation have been very heated topic of discussion in last few years,instances of students getting admission in NEET-PG at negative score in 3rd round of councelling in 2025, Zero seats for general class in OSSRC-CRE(2025) in various districts, example: for Assistant Revenue Inspector zero seats in Koraput, Rayagada, Sundargarh; zero seats for JCDS Supervisor in Kalahanda, Nuapada and many more.
People who say Reservation was given by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and take it as their right the same person advocated it to end in few years but it still continued due to many reasons. If a group of people say there should be no reservation at all then it would be more difficult to create social equality in such a vast country but it should have some limits.
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The honourable Supreme Court of India introduced the concept of creamy layer in SC/St category at par with OBC in the JARNAIL SINGH V/S LACHHMI NARAIN GUPTA case of 2018 to stop the repeated claims of reservation by the same uplifted family, but it was implemented inconsistently across nation where state governments tried to do it but faced backlash or litigations.
The ques arrises whether the reservation is decreasing the social inequality or just “fueling the hatred among the students who lost their deserving seats to undeserved candidates”. NCRB reports that sucide cases have increased by 65% among students betweeen 2013–2023, and causes listed were: academic pressure, carreer uncertainity, caste-discrimination and reservation related stress.
CASTE-BASED DISCRIMINATION this is something intresting because it has been always related to sc/st while if you see in todays world not getting a seat in top medical college or an IIT because of your caste is also a caste based discrimination it is in other words denying education on caste basis.
General seats have shrinked to 40.5% in all India category and even fewer in some states for JEE students. Is this how a nation awards its meritorious students. There have been continous sucide cases in India, In July 2023 aspirant from bihar left a note which told the truth of Indian Education System in one single line “RESEVATION LEAVES NO CHANCE FOR US”
OPINION: From the above writting you may think I am against Reservation but that is not true. I support genuine reservation for deprived families irrespective of caste. If one family have good financial status they can get anything and everything what an average general student have to prepare for same exam then why reservation for one and not for the other having same resources. On the other hand there may be a general student having no facilities and still not have reservation. IS IT FAIR? People who got reservation should think upon this. As a maths student I will say financial barrier is the super set of all kind of barrier be it caste,region,relegion or anything. For new India there should be end of caste based reservation and a reservation on basis of financial ability should be only reserved category(known as EWS).
